Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

In today’s era, where the whole world has turned to virtual means, blockchain as a technology is gathering everyone’s attention and showing accelerating growth in its market. The nodes authenticate transactions, add the data to their copy of the common ledger and transfer the ledger additions to all other nodes.

Technology 52

Technology Patent IP Invention 52

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

In today’s era, where the whole world has turned to virtual means, blockchain as a technology is gathering everyone’s attention and showing accelerating growth in its market. The nodes authenticate transactions, add the data to their copy of the common ledger and transfer the ledger additions to all other nodes.

Technology 52

Technology Patent IP Invention 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

For example, when a sound recording of a musical work gets played on Spotify, both the owner of the copyright in the musical work and the owner of copyright in the sound recording (the derivative work) are entitled to royalties for the public performance. This is the familiar four-factor test for fair use.

Fair Use 96

Fair Use Derivative Work Blogging Licensing 96

43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

By defining purpose only as licensing image of Prince—use in a well-structured conventionalized market—the majority gets to be dismissive of the dissent; it doesn’t matter how much Warhol contributed b/c he created a substantially similar image which is now competing with her photograph. It participates in the same conventionalized market.

Fair Use 52

Fair Use Copyright Derivative Work Marketing 52

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 17, 2023

among others, temporary reproduction, some lawful uses, private copy/reprography, private study, illustration for teaching and research), which are either classified or labelled differently in different Member States, or are qualified as acts outside the scope of copyright instead of L&Es. Private copy and reprography.

Reporting 52

Reporting Copyright Public Domain Copying 52

SpicyIP

JANUARY 9, 2023

After an eventful first week of the year, we bring out quick summaries of the 6 blogposts we carried, along with 10 cases and other national and international IP developments for you. Revenue to share copy of its report filed earlier. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes’ enters public domain.

Trademark 90

Trademark IP Registration Reporting 90

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

But socially valuable innovations can be difficult to marketize/commodify. Restrict derivative right to adaptations/forms of representations that change medium, not works in same primary market. Looking at post-1978, 9 th , 2d, and 6 th Cir (Motown) and SCt; copying and use without license. public domain.

Copyright 64

Copyright Editing Settlement Music 64

43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The 2001 Documentary “sold 50,000 copies in two weeks and revolutionized the Baltimore dirt-bike culture,” inspiring a sequel and plans to make a third film. But the 2013 Documentary was not a market substitute, because it was transformative of a small portion of the 2001 Documentary. “[I]t The similarities in setting, theme, etc.

Fair Use 52

Fair Use Trademark Copyright Editing 52

43(B)log

APRIL 26, 2022

The court of appeals kicked out nearly $42 million in penalties because there was no evidence of what Ethicon’s employees and agents actually said in oral marketing communications, which is a good incentive not to leave a record I guess, but affirmed the rest. So too with its marketing communications to doctors and patients.

Advertising 59

Advertising Advertising Marketing Marketing 59

The IPKat

APRIL 11, 2023

Given their competitive position vis a vis Amazon, some eyebrows were raised when Amazon purchased Book Depository, reportedly on July 4, 2011 (in light of later events, the date portended Orwellian irony regarding the company's long-term freedom). The distribution of books was no less crucial than the means of copying and reproduction.

Business 70

Business Public Domain Reporting Journalism 70

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. Effective January 1, 1978, the date of federal copyright protection was moved back from the date of first publication to the date the work was “fixed in a tangible medium of expression,” or permanently recorded in some form. .

Copyright 121

Copyright Blogging Publishing Fair Use 121